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Roy Tarpley 1911 - 1979

Roy Tarpley of Allen Park, Wayne County, Michigan was born on September 15, 1911, and died at age 67 years old in July 1979.
Roy Tarpley
Allen Park, Wayne County, Michigan 48101
September 15, 1911
July 1979
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Roy Tarpley's History: 1911 - 1979

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    1911

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    September 15, 1911
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  • 07/dd
    1979

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    July 1979
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    Roy Tarpley lived 5 years shorter than the average family member when died at the age of 67.
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In 1911, in the year that Roy Tarpley was born, British physicist Ernest Rutherford (born in New Zealand), along with German physicist Hans Geiger, discovered the structure of an atom. He found that atoms had nuclei (a nucleus) and were circled by electrons, much as planets orbit the sun.
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In 1925, at the age of only 14 years old, Roy was alive when in July, the Scopes Trial - often called the Scopes Monkey Trial - took place, prosecuting a substitute teacher for teaching evolution in school. Tennessee had enacted a law that said it was "unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school". William Jennings Bryan headed the prosecution and Clarence Darrow headed the defense. The teacher was found guilty and fined $100. An appeal to the Supreme Court of Tennessee upheld the law but overturned the guilty verdict.
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